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Meadow Garden
This client near tightly trimmed turf of Augusta National, wanted a wild meadow. Years later, I get calls saying how cool it is. Tony Carr, an artist from North Augusta, designed and made the copper screen sculpture blocks a view of a close house.
Read MoreCoastal Meadow Garden Isle of Palms
Honor the marsh and the creatures in it. Add some great plants, a fire pit and paths to get from house to pool. That’s all. Garden and marsh.
Read MoreTransition from Turf to Meadow Using Spring Annuals as First Step
When I first met with the owners of Blue Poppy Farm, we stood surrounded by endless turf. They said, “We ride the horses into the woods around here and it’s so beautiful out there. ” Can you make this look more like that?” The transition will take years. The long term goal includes Sandhills meadow…
Read MoreSand Dune Meadow; A Plea for Stewardship in Gardening
Our beautiful barrier islands have been landscaped beyond recognition. Typical “landscapes” seem designed to demonstrate that people can dominate nature. We can. We do. For a moment in time. But in making and keeping up typical landscapes, we’re doing harm to the life on the islands, in the soil and in the water. We can…
Read MorePlants for Deep South Meadows
You know those meadows that you see in magazines? The ones that beckon pick-nickers with knee high whispering grasses and painterly masses of wildflowers? The kind of meadow you might skip through, roll in, take off your shirt and nap with your dog in? In the Deep South, we only have those in calendars and…
Read More5 Seeds to Plant Now To Feed Your Soil & Soul in the Fall
Anticipation steeps on the farm. We, or maybe just me, are drawn to watching over our new seedlings as they mature into strong plants. I keep watch under the moonlight. I lend a helping hand to secure the grappling tendrils of a young Hyacinth Bean vine. Sometimes I go to this dark and mysterious place…
Read MoreNative Winged Loosetrife
A favorite little perennial with thousands of lavender flowers in the heat of August, September, and into October.
Native loosestrife grows in the Carolinas and into the mid-West. It’s a great meadow plant, a weaver that runs and makes an open stand of erect, 18-inch flowers. That habit allows other plants such as crinum, day lily, grasses, and such to come up in it.
It loves a sort of moist spot, in fact, it will thrive in a bog. It will do ok in normal, heavy soil. And it will survive periods of dry, but it really is best in a wet place. Fun sun is best.
Loosetrife catches a breeze, it moves and adds life to a hot garden. And pollinators of all kinds flock to it!
Plant now and it’ll look great through November,then come back every year.
We ship two plants per order.
Read MoreParking Garden Main St. Columbia
We created a modern version of wild sandhills meadows in a green space in what had been a parking lot since 1920. Using perfectly adapted plants and all low impact techniques; no irrigation system, no soil amendments, no synthetic chemicals a barren back door became a welcoming parking garden. Here’s a link to blog on…
Read MoreEryngium pandanifolium Needs a Better Name & It Oughta Mention Tree Frogs
Like the best of “exclamation point” plants, giant eryngium adds evergreen structure to a garden. But like, drought-tolerant plants, the leaves look stiff and foreboding to some people. One garden client used to constantly tell me to leave my ‘pokey and prickly’ plants out of her designs! Some of those things can be hell to…
Read MoreIs a pot of peculiar bulbs the adult version of sea monkeys?
Did you dream of a tiny kingdom of Sea Monkeys? I did. Or were you the Living Magic Rock kid? Both? Me too. Are you now ready for the grown-up version? We put together a box of peculiar bulbs with quirky, enticing traits. They all fit in a pot. Planting them, watching them grow will…
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